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Cohort Size and Youth Employment Outcomes

Newhouse, David; Wolff, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper utilizes a cross-country panel of 83 developing countries to examine how changes in cohort size are correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of development. In low-income countries, young adults that are born...

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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-age individuals than for the population as a whole. We argue, however, that the cross-country evidence suggests some scope for re …

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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment

Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced international capital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data....

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Caught in the Bulimic Trap? Persistence and State Dependence of Bulimia Among Young Women

Goeree, Michelle S.; Ham, John C.; Iorio, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Eating disorders are an important and growing health concern, and bulimia nervosa (BN) accounts for the largest … fraction of eating disorders. Health consequences of BN are substantial and especially serious given the increasingly …

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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Koustas, Dmitri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

persistence of unemployment in the U.S., but the evolution in mobility and demographics over time should have more than offset the …

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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...

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Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

Chamon, Marcos; Prasad, Eswar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

this can be explained by the rising private burden of expenditures on housing, education, and health care. …

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To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective

Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our … population and employment growth, but no significant impact on nonmetropolitan counties. In contrast, the fragmentation of … general-purpose governments per capita has a negative impact on employment and population growth in nonmetropolitan counties …

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The Labor/Land Ratio and India's Caste System

Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal …

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